To continue to keep his chairs, he will have to lean to the left the rest of his term.  If Obama proves worthy of expectations, there is no way he wins again in CT unless he is seen to be on Obama's side.  Keeping him "in the tent" handcuffs him a bit if he wants to have a chance at re-election. Kicking him out makes him go full tilt Republican to muster the scenario that you put forth.

I started to type something for this comment section and then I saw that you already posted exactly what I was thinking.

That might be true, but it begs the question: "why are you hanging out with High Schooler Adults?" We all have choices to make.

Why does Obama have to muddy his hands over this issue?  If he jumps in to support Lieberman, he risks upsetting his left flank.  If he jumps in to oppose Lieberman, he creates more of a Martyr for the right and labels himself as being first and foremost concerned with political retribution. This is a Senate matter, it should be decided wholely by the Senate majority leadership, or by a vote of Caucus.  Rightly, it should simply be the Majority leader's decision.  Once the elections have been resolved, he needs to make a decision and that is that.

I am seeing the John McCain from a few years ago now.  If he returns to being a straight shooter I have no problem placing him at one of the highest rungs of respect.  I think he is giving a really  nice and generous concession.

Obama 53% McCain 47%, EV = 178R/360D,  Dems reach 59 seat majority (failing to get desired 60)

Being a Missourian, I have to say that the current odds are ever so slight in McCain's way. However, this is all about turn out. The vast majority of voters in MO are in 4 areas.  St. Louis and Kansas City are the largest and then Springfield and the Jefferson City area.  If the turnout in those areas see significant increase, then Obama wins.  St Louis City and St Louis County are likely going to go Obama as it has trended Democratic fairly well recently.  KC is also an area that Obama can do well in.  Springfield is very republican.  The Jeff. City area has a lot of college students and government workers...that can be close. If we call those areas the urbam areas, then Obama has a pretty good edge.  The rest of the state will go republican, but they simply lack the numbers to overcome high urban turnout.  So what can you all do to help us get the vote out in the urbam areas?  All we need is about 8% better than average turnout in those areas.

Lou Dobbs is running a ridiculous right winger poll tonight.  Take a minute to go add your vote at http://loudobbs.tv.cnn.com/ (the poll is in the lower right column.   Don't let the wingnuts have their propoganda point!

Trying to lookj for a silver lining.... at least this will help the average American understand that the current state of financial crapola was brought to us by the GOP administration.  You know that if this had occurred after the election that they would have hung the blame for it on the new presidemt....at least the republicans would.

Jerome, you are far too important to be doin gall that yourself.  Tell you what, email me all of the current passwords and I will change them all for you!

I fyou read the details of the bill you will see that it forbids drilling within 50 miles...which is all that big oil wants when they say "drill baby drill".  It also removes sunsidies to big oil, and mandates new investment in alternative energy.  The bill is a compromise away from the absolute No Drilling stance.  It is also a political move to have Republicans go on record as voting against it.  I think you can debate and critique those latter two issues all you want, but the actual language of the bill is not really a cave in on the subject.  Unless of course you think in binary absolutes, which in my experience tends to be how Republicans think.

I am completely for the democratic ticket, and I loved Olbermann when he started speaking truth to power with his passionate "Special Comments".  However, I have found myself drifting away from MSNBC coverage because of the lack of objectivity. MSNBC, and most notably Olbermann and Matthews have not only veered far left in commentary, but have at times actually mocked and sneared in an attempt to drive ratings.  Worse, they started to believe that they weild some power to influence outcomes.  That is not the purpose of news anchors. I had pretty much given up on CNN's quality, but I find myself watching it to find balanced views.  Fox and MSNBC have become caricatures. Fox has tried to pull back toward the middle, but they have so far to go that they can not kick the neo-con habit quickly enough for this election.

He was the opposite of bored.  He was onboard.  a typo of missing space (or hyphen) rather than a misspelling.

Why do I get the feeliong that you wrote that comment before the convention even started?

It really is NOT about her being a woman.  It is about the "right's" radical fantacism against her in particular.  Given her dedication and intelligence, is it a fair criticism of her?  NO! But we are talking politics and elections here. Perceptions and things that motivate voters to vote matters.  She simply would drive up the base voting by republicans....although less so as VP as she might have as President. Besides, I don't think she wants to be VP and she made that clear to Obama.  She is far better off being the high profile Senator from New York.